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In episode 33 of The Project Shrink Chalyce Nollsh (PM Bistro) is talking about the flip side of social media; some words of caution when using new media as a Project Manager. In this presentation, recorded at the PMI Global Congress in Orlando, she discusses the following topics: New Media Never Sleeps Without Business Value, [...]

In this episode of the Project Shrink podcast Hal Macomber explains how he and his colleagues are using Yammer at Lean Project Consulting (LPC). They are creating “frictionless communication” with this tool that is similar to Twitter. He puts the use of this tool into perspective with the other tools used and currently in use [...]

At the recent PMI Global Congress in Orlando I did a presentation together with Cornelius Fichtner (ThePMPodcast.com) and Josh Nankivel (pmStudent.com). We focused on demonstrating the use of new tools to manage virtual teams and allow them to collaborate. We used Skype, Vyew.com and Google Docs to show how to work effectively with virtual teams [...]

This is a guest post by Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike.com. This article originally appeared on his blog Project Management 2.0. Significant changes are taking place in management and especially project management today. We hear that organizations, like the New York Times, Tribune Co., Ernst & Young switched from the so-called top-down management style to bottom-up [...]

In episode 20 of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to Jerome Breche and Jerome Mouton from TimZon. TimZon is a new tool for asynchronous video discussions. Skype and other video conferencing solutions are great for the little time per day when the team members are available. But with teams for instance in India [...]

How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly similar. The article describes three rules to create successful virtual [...]

Do you want to know how Social Media can be used to boost project success? Do you? We already know the answer for a couple of years. But not everyone is looking for it in the right direction. Virtual teams. In 2004 the Harvard Business Review published a great article by Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, [...]

In this episode of The Project Shrink podcast I am talking to Hal Macomber about the use of Social Media at Lean Project Consulting. Hal is practice leader at this company and also author of the popular blog Reforming Project Management. We discuss using blogs to create thought leadership and tools like yammer and EtherPad. [...]

Looking for an excuse to try Twitter? How about getting a chance to win a free copy of “SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint“? This week I am running a short contest on Twitter and I am giving away 5 copies of this great book by [...]